Product for making bread, cake, and like foods.



UNITED STATES PATENT omen WILIiIAM EDWARD CASTLE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

raonucr, ron maxme BREAD, CAKE, Am LIKE roons.

1,042,647. Kc Drawiirg.

manufacture used in making bread, 'cake or -analogous farinaceous foods.

The/object of my lIlVBIltlOnls to provide efficiently and economically, a prepared compound having the constituent ingredients of bread, cake or analogous'farinaceous foods, so that merely by the addition of moisture followed bythe ordinary operation of kneading or beating, a superior dough-or batter, ready for baking, may be obtained, thus facilitating and simplifying the art of bak- A further object'is to secure accurate proportioningand thorough mixing andcompounding of the constituent ingredients, yielding an evenly balanced product which, when baked, produces food of. superior value.

In general, in preparing my product, I take a flour which may be of wheat, corn, rye,'or other cereal or mixture thereof, and I thoroughly mix and co'mpoun'd'therewith pulverized dried yeast, or equivalent leaven, and a yeast stimulant or food, such as the dried product of whole or skimmed milk or eggs, using appropriate mixing and compoundingmeans to secure a smooth and uniform product.

In a preferred form, I also include a dry shortening element, such as cocoanut fat or stearin, mixing and compounding the four ingredients or constituent elements in the manner above described,

I may also, as a preliminary step, build up the nutritive deficiencies of flour ground from hard wheat, by the'addition of starch elements (corn flour being itself .a starch element) and of flour ground from soft wheat by the'addition of gluten elements. Hard wheat flour which may have'a'n excess of gluten elements may be blended with soft wheat flours deficient therein. I use the may treatment of 'supplying defi- Ti: lieause I have discovered that the panel from different varieties ofv require different proportions of inients to produce superior baking re- I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Oct. 29,1912.

Application filed January 20, 19 12. Serial No. 672,357.

sults, which proportions are based upon the r I analytical properties of the wheat, This var ation in starch or gluten elements is especially apparent in soft and hard wheats.

Corn flour deficient in gluten may-be built up by blending with a hard wheat flour.

In theselect-ion of yeast or equivalent ferment itis important that it should be thoroughly dried to insure the keeping quality of the product and to avoid premature fermentation, and that it be tho-roughly assimi' lated in the mixture to insure proper leaven ing, I therefore prefer to have it pulverized. .In the selection of a yeast stimulant or food, I prefer to use as an ingredient the dried product of whole or skimmed milk or eggs or both to increase the lea-vening power of the yeast and'to diminish the quantity of yeast necessary. It is important that the yeast food or stimulant should be thor-; oughly' dried to insure the keeping quality of the product and to avoid premature fermentation.

In proportioning the several constituent ingredients to derive a balanced product with latent superior food values,I take about one-half to twoper cent. of pulverized dried yeast 'and from three to five and one-half per cent. of the dried product of whole or skimmed milk or eggs or both. hen adding the cocoanut fat or stearin, I prefer to use about one-half to one per cent. In some instances it may be desirable to add about i one or two percent. of seasoning, which may be sugar or saltor'both. The amount of flour used is about ninety to ninety-five per cent. a

The mechanical operation of mixing and compounding the constituent ingredients may be performed by apparatus well known in the milling art.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a

prepared compound, ready for nioistening, kneading and baking inthe makingof bread, cake and analogous farinaceous foods, comprising flour, pulverized dry yeastand a yeast stimulant or food in substantially the relative proportions described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a prepared compound, ready for moistening, kneading and baking into bread, cake and analogous farinaceous foods, comprising a cereal flour, pulverized yeast and a yeast food or stimulant, all said ingredients being forth.

dry and compounded in approximately the relative proportions described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a prepared compound, ready for moistening, kneading and baking into bread, cake and analogous farinaceous foods, flour, shortening, pulverized yeast and a yeast food or stimulant, thoroughly dried and united in a uniform compound in sub stantially the relative proportions described.

4. As a newarticle of manufacture, a prepared compound comprising the dried prodnot of milk and eggs, pulverized dry yeast and flour in substantially the relative proportions d'escrlbed and for the purposes set 5. As a new article of manufacture, a prepared com ound composed of dry shorten- I mg, the dried product of milk and eggs, pul-- verized dry yeast and flour in substantially the proportions described and for the purposes set forth.

'- 6. As a new article of manufacture, a pre pared compound comprising dry shortening, the dried product of milk, pulverized dry yeast tions described and for the purposes set forth.

7. As a new article of manufacture, a precomposed ofand flour in substantiallythe proporpared compound comprising the dried product of skimmed milk, pulverized dry yeast and Hour in substantially the relative proportions described and for the purposes set forth.

8. Asa new article of manufacture, a prepared compound, for the purposes 'set forth, comprising dry shortening, the dried product of skimmed milk, pulverized dry yeast and flour in substantially the proportions set forth.

9. As a new article of manufacture, a prepared compound comprising dry shortening,

thedried product of milk, pulverized dry yeast, a' suitable seasoning, and flour in substantially the proportions described and for the purposes set forth. 10.-As a new article of manufacture, a prepared compound, for the purposes set forth, com rising dryshortening, the dried product 0 skimmed milk, pulverized dry yeast, a suitable seasoning and flour in substantially the proportions set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. WILLIAM EDWARD CASTLE Witnesses:

ROBERT CATHERWOOD,

LUCY WRIGHT. 

